POSTSCRIPT 



Since the publication o£ the first series of 

 lectures it has seemed advisable to limit the 

 scope of future series more definitely. Should 

 the field of subjects include all of those which 

 affect "individual attitude and social policy," 

 it would make for a loss of coherence and 

 continuity in the lectures as a whole. Accord- 

 ingly, we have decided to confine the subjects, 

 for the present at least, to those which bear 

 directly upon a most important phase of the 

 general problem of *^ social poHcy " — that of 

 Social Control. 



The idea of unlimited human progress is 

 but four centuries old. The idea of the con- 

 scious direction of that progress is yet in its 

 infancy. Few indeed there are who do not 

 still consider human characteristics, institu- 

 tions, and environment to be as immutably 

 fixed as the hills and the ocean. The merest 

 scatterinor of human heinous realizes that with 

 knowledge and cooperative effort large masses 

 of people can, in great measure, seize their 

 destiny and mold it to their conscious aims. 



With the birth of this idea of Social Con- 

 trol among the few have come large plans of 



